Chapter 34 Section ten

A man named Xingu Bofu wrote a paragraph in the weekly "Wenyichunqiu", which goes something like this: He (Horo Shintani) was the backbone of the "counterintelligence team" in Osaka, and was brought to Tokyo by his superior, a second lieutenant named John Tanaka.I don't know what the content of the task is.He drove a jeep and parked at Mitsubishi Bank in Ogawa.After about a quarter of an hour, a black "Buick" drove up from the side of the bank. "So, Tanaka gave the order: 'Follow that car!' I drove behind that car. I chased from Matsuzumi to Manseibashi, and when I was approaching the land bridge of Manseibashi, maybe it was because I was driving too fast. It was too close to the car in front, and it got out of the way to let us 'overtake'. We had no choice but to rush over. But we were afraid that it would turn halfway, so we stopped at the next intersection and waited for the 'Buick', so that we could follow up It. 'Buick' passed from Tenjin to Okachimachi, turned around from the front of Matsuzakaya and drove to Kanda Station. When we arrived at Kanda, 'Buick' made two circles at the same place. We also followed it for two circles At this time, Tanaka said: "It's done, let's go to the National Railway Headquarters again." He probably got in touch with another car, and that car will follow him in the future.

"After returning to the National Railway Headquarters, Tanaka went inside for about five minutes, and when he came out, he said: 'Hurry up to Mitsukoshi.' I drove the car to the back door of Mitsukoshi, sent Tanaka in, and parked the car in the parking lot. . "I waited for a while. After about 20 minutes, Tanaka came out with a large brown kraft paper envelope, handed it to me and said: 'You take this and go back to Osaka. I have something to do, don't wait for me, go right away After finishing speaking, he walked into Mitsukoshi and disappeared. I felt as if I was fascinated by a fox, and I was stunned for a while. That night, I followed his instructions and went back to Osaka. The envelope contained the list of layoffs of the National Railways. I knew from the newspapers that there was a 'downhill incident'. But I never dreamed that I had anything to do with it."

It is said that Lieutenant John Tanaka did work in the "counterintelligence team" in Osaka-he is the leader of the "counterintelligence team" in Osaka.Below him are the former military police sergeant, the former director of the Kyoto District Prosecutor's Office, and the former super high-ranking members of the military police headquarters, etc., forming a squad.Xingu Bofu is the junior agent of this class. It can also be seen from this that each class must not be allowed to know their respective tasks, and each class is just a lonely point in the grassroots organization.This point must not be connected with parallel classes, and only the leaders of each class know the connection between the upper and lower classes.These various squads are all controlled by senior personnel in the Central Intelligence Department.As far as the "downhill incident" is concerned, the various squads were probably summoned from various places, and they were not told what tasks they would be given. The superiors only selected them based on their specialties and ordered them to go to Tokyo.After they came to Tokyo, they left Tokyo one after another in haste after completing a task that they didn't even know the details of.

Foremost among these are the Secret Service agents on Site 1 and Site 2.What happened to most of these people now?A year later, the Korean War broke out. If these agents were soldiers, they might have been sent to the most dangerous line of fire.Anyway, until a certain period comes, the whole picture of this incident cannot be clarified, and the murderer will probably never be caught. The factories run by the Japanese have oil similar to the rice bran oil (the so-called "downhill oil") that Xiashan was stained with, but not exactly the same; the true nature of the toner has not been announced.Dr. Qiugu once wrote a testimonial to the prosecutor's office, but he never talked about the content of the testimonial.From what he said, "you will find out the earth-shattering facts when you talk about it", you can probably know the true nature of "oil" and "toner".

Whoever ordered the "downhill mail" will probably never be known.Without real evidence, you can't just rely on imagination.However, the following words seem to be ok to say.There is such a passage in Kaga-san's article: "But I don't think President Xiashan died in vain. Taking this incident as an opportunity, the large-scale layoffs of the National Railways gradually progressed, and finally completed smoothly. After the large-scale layoffs, the post-war enterprises that were under pressure from the labor union The world can also settle down and work hard on the revival of the company. In this sense, this is another epoch-making year that promotes the opportunity for Japan's economic revival. Therefore, the death of President Shimoyama is a worthy sacrifice. I sincerely think that , President Xiashan will feel gratified when he thinks of this under the Nine Springs."

This is to comment on the "downhill incident" from the ending.However, the ending theory can also be reversed—that is to say, no one can conclude that no one conspired to plan the "downhill incident" because of anticipating such an ending. That is to say, no one can assert that this conspiracy was not planned to "successfully complete" the layoffs of the National Railways, to suppress Japan's "democracy movement that has gone too far", and to pull Japan into the only way for future confrontation foreign communist forces. The plotters originally intended to make people think that President Xia Shan had "suicided".But the Second Section of the Metropolitan Police Department did not think that he committed suicide, but concluded that he was murdered, and started investigating along this clue.As far as the plotters are concerned, it doesn't matter if people think that Xiashan was murdered, but in this case, they want to make people think that it was done by the Communist Party.In fact, they did.But when the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office and the Second Division of the Metropolitan Police Department followed the clue of the murder case, the investigation took a strange direction-that is, the clue gradually became very unsuitable for the plotters. , and even made them feel threatened.If it was investigated as a murder case, they originally wanted to fabricate this incident as a conspiracy by the Japanese Communist Party, so they had to order to stop investigating it as a murder case.Presumably it was for this reason that the investigation work of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office and the Second Division of the Metropolitan Police Department suffered setbacks.

In other words, the conspiracy planners laid out two suspicions in this case: suicide and murder.In terms of suicide, the "stand-in" is prepared.Then why not simply treat it as "murder" so that people think it was planned by "red elements"?On this point, may wish to make the following explanation. Generally speaking, in Japan's public security agencies at that time, the National Police was controlled by the Intelligence Bureau of the U.S. General Command, while the Autonomous Police was controlled by the Civil Affairs Bureau.The Procuratorate is also under the control of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

When the head of the U.S. Secret Service planned to murder President Shimoyama, he must have thought that after the incident, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department under the control of the Civil Affairs Bureau would be responsible for the investigation work, and he would also have thought that the Tokyo Public Prosecutor's Office would direct this work.The Metropolitan Police Department's excellent investigative skills are world-renowned, and they probably took this into consideration.They also expected that the results of the investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Metropolitan Police Department might see through the untenable statement that "Communists and radicals among the 'red elements' killed President Xiashan" is untenable. The Ministry of Intelligence's rival Civil Affairs Bureau might also accuse the plot of being poorly planned.Of course, this matter will not be announced in front of the Japanese people, but will be reported to MacArthur and the United States itself.Even if this incident did not happen, the Civil Affairs Bureau is already investigating the corruption of Minister of Intelligence Willoughby.

Therefore, the most important thing for the special agent class to guard against is the Civil Affairs Bureau.In order to prevent the theory that President Xiashan was murdered by a "red element" to reveal flaws during the investigation stage, we must prepare room for maneuver in advance, so we released the theory of President Xiashan's suicide, and even the "stand-in" line.That is to say, the secret service class arranged two suspicions of suicide and murder at the same time.If the Ministry of Intelligence had all the public security agencies in its own hands, the "downhill incident" would have been planned more simply.

As for who the "stand-in" is, I have an idea.The prosecutor's office at the time would not have been ignorant.In fact, the "stand-in" has also been investigated, but since the theory of President Xiashan's suicide appeared, the investigation has stopped. Some people (for example, the critic Ken Hirano) saw me writing this way, and said: "The double" section is too coincidental.However, even the vice president of Jiamaoshan, who was at odds with President Xiashan at the time, thought there was a "stand-in".I believe the above speculation is not wrong. '

Then why didn't the Metropolitan Police Department simply judge it as a "suicide" case?Why didn't the plotters get the ministry to make that conclusion explicit? Could it be that the judgment was not formally made on purpose, so that the atmosphere of the murder case could be vaguely left, so that the impression of ordinary people in the society will always remain like this, a cloud of suspicion: whether it was done by the Japanese Communist Party or the radical members of the National Railways Union? ?Another reason is that the Metropolitan Police Department must have hesitated to officially announce the case as a "suicide". But they had to come up with something like a conclusion, so they made an informal announcement in the form of the so-called "White Paper on the "Downhill Incident"". According to rumors, this "White Paper" was taken out of the Metropolitan Police Department's vault at some point and sold to the magazine by someone.But others say that the plot was initiated by someone from the intelligence department of the U.S. General Command. There are various rumors circulating in the society about this incident.For example, in July of the 27th year of Showa, someone distributed a strange English document to various trade unions, which read: "On the ground near the place where the president of the Xiashan National Railway was killed, there were traces of large American leather boots .Several people who have been near the scene reported to the police the fact that an American military truck passed by the bridge near the crime scene. An official from the Ministry of Transport also testified that he had seen I went down the mountain and took an American car with an American. These testimonies have not been taken seriously." It is also rumored that the Cannon organization is involved in this incident, but just as I have already pointed out, it is impossible for a subordinate organization like Cannon to plan. The above is my speculation in the way of speculative novels.If the "Downhill Incident" is regarded as a mystery novel, then there is no conspiracy of this magnitude. The "White Paper on the "Downhill Incident"" is a report made along the premise of suicide theory; all materials related to murder have been excluded.Of course, I definitely don't think that the investigators at the forefront of the First Investigation Division advocated the theory of suicide because of some kind of restraint from the very beginning.But their major mistake was that after arriving at the scene, they suddenly thought that going down the mountain was suicide based on their intuition.As Horizaki, the head of the First Investigative Section, said: "As a result of many years of murder investigation work, I immediately feel that it is a murder case when I arrive at the scene. But in the case of the 'downhill incident', there is no such intuition. .So this is suicide." (quoted from Jiamaoshan's article) I am afraid this is the initial impression of the First Division of Investigation. The strong basis for the suicide theory is that the weeds from the scene were contained in the pockets of the downhill coat covering the corpse, which was said to be consistent with the testimony of the eyewitness Takeko Yamazaki quoted above. easy to do. The murder of Shimoyama was a conspiracy planned to thwart Japan's "progressive forces that have gone too far."Xia Shan was deliberately chosen as the protagonist of this shocking event, probably because he, as the president of the National Railways, insisted on his own stand and resisted the proposals of the US General Command or Sagnon.Xia Shan's mistake was that he always understood the issue of the national railway layoffs as an administrative measure or an economic measure, and he didn't realize that he had angered the supreme ruler Sagnon and the huge forces behind him.The tragedy of Xiashan is that he is too broad. On the issue of national railway layoffs, President Shimoyama resolutely opposed the plan unilaterally formulated by the US General Command in an attempt to force Japanese officials to accept it as it is.So, despite his urgency, Sagnon procrastinated and tried to formulate his plan. Xia Shan unexpectedly became the president.It is said that he has a good understanding of the workers of the National Railways in private.The layoff plan proposed by the US General Command at the beginning included a large number of personnel, and Xiashan has been resisting it.After the death of President Shimoyama, the National Railways Union even gave a eulogy by the vice-chairman Ichizo Suzuki.However, this eulogy was not read out before the funeral of Xiashan. "eulogy "Mr. Xiashan, you have suddenly suffered such a tragic change. On behalf of all 600,000 trade union members, I would like to express my heartfelt condolences to you. "The National Railway Company is currently facing extremely difficult problems. It is said that at that time, many people tended to avoid being the first president, but you resolutely stepped forward and accepted it. "As a trade union representative, we understand your daily feelings very well. Every time we stand our ground, you treat each other with sincerity. We still believe that only you understand our true meaning. "The streamlining of the organization this time is of far-reaching significance, and it is even enough to influence the fate of the Japanese trade unions and the country. We came here for the negotiations on July 2 with the enthusiasm of talking and negotiating with you openly. But the two sides Opinions were stalemate and deadlocked, and you finally announced the cessation of negotiations. We can see that your secrets were revealed on your face in an instant. "On the one hand, your private sympathy for the doom of the victims of the layoffs, and on the other hand, the unreasonable demands of the government—the expression on your face is probably the extreme tension between the two. Painful feelings. We hoped to have a good discussion with you. The people of the whole country are also watching this issue and looking forward to it. Unexpectedly, we see your tragic remains here. Your death is an irreparable loss. We I am deeply saddened. Today, all 600,000 trade union members remember your integrity and express their sincere condolences unanimously. "On the occasion of parting, we would like to tell you that in order to rebuild the National Railways and revive Japan, we are sincere and hope that the matter can be resolved satisfactorily. Please rest in peace forever as the immortal pillar of the National Railways. I would like to use this prayer as a Parting words. "July 9, 1949 "National Railroad Union" The investigation of the "downhill incident" has actually ended.As long as Japan's current international status does not change, the truth of this conspiracy will probably never be revealed in broad daylight.

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